New Arts and craft desk

On February 13 I bought this really cool arts and crafts desk that a friends husband made. I saw it at their house like 7 years ago and told her if she ever got rid of it I wanted it.

Well, this month they are moving to California for his job. :(

So I bought the desk from them. I love it. Now I can do all my scrapbooking on it and have plenty of room for storage and work space.

The letters on top was made from a teacher at work who teaches shop. I asked him if he could cut some out if he had time. It wasn't any big deal and I'd pay him for it. I came in the following MOnday and there they were laying on my desk. :) Now to figure out how to decorate them.

Wreaths

Last night some of my friends and I got together and crafted. Our theme was Valentine's. I wanted to craft a felt heart that I saw on The Idea Room's site but Michaels didn't have the heart shaped styrofoam I wanted. So instead I found this cool wreath on Crafty Little Beana, which I originally found on Pinterest. So here are some of the items I bought. Not pictured is the black polka dot ribbon and the spray paint for the wreath (everything was bought at Michael's for a total of $68).


So here is what I did. I bought a wreath and spary painted it some color green (I'll find out and repost).

Here are the paints I bought (3 from the Martha Stewart Collection).

I bought a pack of 4 piece wooden circles. I used a whole punch and punched a circle in the top (see the pink painted circle on the plate below).

I used the pink paint I bought to match the flowers and painted one of the circles.

Here's a bunch of the fake flowers I bought at Michael's and I couldn't find them in the red, like the picture, so I bought them in pink. Plus it looks springy.

Here is the almost finished wreath. After I cut the stems off the flowers, I hot glued them to the wreath so they didn't fall out.

Here's the close up.

I'm still working on the circle with the letter of our last name on it. I'll post that when I get it done (hopefully Thursday night).